PSYC 1000 Final: exam notes psych

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Classical conditioning: learning that occurs when a neutral stimulus elicits a response that was usually cause by another stimulus, learning by association. Unconditioned stimulus: stimulus that elicits a reflexive response without learning. Unconditioned response: reflexive unlearned reaction to unconditioned stimulus (salivating occurred naturally, didn"t need to be taught) Conditioned response: learned response that occurs to the conditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: a once neutral stimulus later elicits conditional response bc it has history of being paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Neutral stimulus: stimulus that does not trigger a response. Acquisition: initial phase in which a response is established (neutral stimulus is paired with the us)- the unconditioned response now gets triggered by a conditioned response (and as become a cr) Spontaneous recovery: reoccurrence of previously extinguished conditioned response, after some time has passed since extinction. Generalization: process in which a response that originally occurs to a specific stimulus also occurs to a different (though similar) stimulus.